ECHA reviews 2013, outlines plans for 2014

11:30 AM MST | December 6, 2013 | Michael Ravenscroft

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki) has reviewed key events in 2013, and provided an outline for 2014. The second deadline for the EU's Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (Reach) registration took place in May. About 3,000 substances were registered in that month, bringing the total number of substances registered under Reach since 2008 to over 7,500, according to ECHA. Since that time, the agency has received over 38,000 registration dossiers, ECHA says. The new Biocidal Products Regulation entered into operation in...